እባብ

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እባብ

እባብ።

Alternative forms edit

ሕባብ (ḥəbab) — archaic

Etymology edit

From Arabic حُبَاب (ḥubāb) or cognate to it, as Tigre ሐበ (ḥäbbä) means “to snake”, without this snake-name itself being attested in Tigrē, if this is not an old denominative.

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

እባብ • (ʾəbab) ?

snake

References edit

^{The template Template:R:am:Kane does not use the parameter(s): entry=ሕባብ
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.}Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 14a
Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[1] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 89